Analysis of laminar-to-turbulent transition for isothermal gas flows in microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-190

  Morini, Gian Luca ^a   Lorenzini, Marco ^a   Salvigni, Sandro ^a   Spiga, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compressibility effects; Friction factor; Microfluidic devices; Pressure drops; Transitional regime

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL LENGTH; CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; CIRCULAR MICROCHANNEL; COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS; CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBER; FRICTION FACTOR; FRICTION FACTORS; GAS FLOWS; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; MICRO-TUBES; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES; NITROGEN FLOW; POISEUILLE NUMBERS; TRANSITIONAL REGIME; TURBULENT TRANSITION;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPRESSIBILITY; DROPS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FRICTION; MACH NUMBER; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SILICA; STAINLESS STEEL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 68349107896     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0369-2     Document Type: Article

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